He and his brother, Daniel, moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut about 1708 and bought land from the Indians.--------------------Daniel Olmsted and brother, Richard and twenty-two others bought, with the p...

Military Connecticut Private in Hinman's Connecticut Regiment? He served in the Revolutionary War. Enlisted May, 1775, under Capt. George iPitkin, of Col.Spencer's reg't. The company marched to Roxbury...